The 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory

Lattice 2014, the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, was held from June 23-28, 2014 on the campus of Columbia University in the City of New York and jointly organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University. Over 415 participants from around the world were in attendance and the plenary program was streamed out via Livestream. Parallel sessions were held in various academic buildings on campus, including Pupin Hall, the home of the Columbia Physics Department and the location of many seminal events in the history of physics.

These annual lattice conferences bring together a diverse community of theoretical physicists all bound by a common interest in a deeper and more quantitative understanding of quantum field theories and the phenomena they predict. Attendees use the largest available computers, and substantial amounts of time on these machines, to produce predictions from well established theories, like Quantum Chromodynamics, while also regularly improving our basic theoretical and numerical tools for analyzing a wide spectrum of quantum field theories. Predictions from Quantum Chromodynamics are vital for precision tests of the Standard Model of Particle Physics and for understanding the phenomena seen at primarily Quantum Chromodynamics oriented experiments, such as at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. There is also considerable focus on studying a wide variety of quantum field theories which currently have no direct experimental utility, but which may play a role in physics beyond the Standard Model.

The annual lattice conferences in this series are the most important vehicle for theorists in this field to exchange ideas and stay abreast of the rapid developments worldwide. In addition, nearly one fourth of the attendees were students, for whom the conference offers a detailed overview of the field. The presence of so many younger researchers testifies to the dynamism of the science being studied.

We would like to thank the members of the International Advisory Committee for their help in organizing the scientific program for this conference. We also acknowledge support from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, Koi Computer, The RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven Science Associates and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Finally, we thank the attendees for making the trip to New York City to share their ideas and results with this international community.

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